remaining two assailants were never caught till today. One of these gang members, 22-year-old Muhamad Hasik bin Sahar, stood trial before JC Tay Yong Kwang in the High Court on 9 May 2002. After pleading guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder (or manslaughter), Hasik was sentenced to life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane by Tay, who backdated the sentence to the date of Hasik's arrest on 15 June 2001. Before the incident, Hasik was previously convicted of causing hurt with dangerous weapons, and sentenced to reformative training at the age of 16 in 1996. When delivering his verdict, and having made reference to Hasik's criminal records, JC Tay felt that Hasik has not "learnt his lesson" even after his previous experience in court, and now that he has committed a crime of greater violence and an innocent life has been lost as a result, the judicial commissioner felt that it was not inappropriate to have Hasik jailed for life. In his words, JC Tay reiterated in his judgement: Those who feel victorious in being vicious and who have no qualms about the annual celebration of one's birth culminating in the untimely death of another will have to spend all subsequent birthdays within prison walls until such time as they are eligible for parole. Later, in August 2002, Hasik's appeal for a lighter sentence was rejected by the Court of Appeal. The case of Chia Teck Leng In April 2004, Judicial Commissioner Tay Yong Kwang, who upgraded as a High Court judge the year before, would sentence 44-year-old Chia Teck Leng, a compulsive gambler and finance manager from Asia Pacific Breweries (APB), to a total of 42 years' imprisonment for Singapore's then biggest case of commercial fraud after convicting him of 14 out of 46 charges of criminal breach of trust, citing that the $117 million he swindled out of four foreign banks was "enough to feed many people for life". Kallang River Body Parts Murder Another case was 50-year-old Leong Siew Chor, who strangled his 22-year-old lover Liu Hong Mei to death and cut up her body into seven pieces before disposing them at the Kallang River. Leong's alleged motive was that he wanted to avoid Liu from discovering that he had stolen her ATM card and stolen all her savings of more than $2,000 and report him, which might risk expose